Eglington Margaret Pearson

Eglington Margaret Pearson (died 14 February 1823) was an English stained glass painter.

Life

She was the daughter of the bookseller Samuel Paterson, and the wife of James Pearson, who was also a glass painter.[1]

Pearson and her husband James came to public attention through works shown at the Society of Artists of Great Britain in its exhibitions in 1775-77. Her work shown there depicted mostly birds, especially parrots and parakeets. Although the couple usually worked on separate pieces they occasionally collaborated, as on their stained glass copy after Carlo Maratti’s Salutation, shown in 1775 . A later joint work was one after Guido Reni’s Aurora, shown in London in 1793. [2] The Pearsons used a technique in which the image was painted in enamels on sheets of plain glass and then fired.[3][4]

The Pearsons exhibited regularly throughout the 1780s and 1790s at their homes in London, first in Church Street, Westminster, and later in Great Newport Street. They also showed at the new Pantheon in Oxford Street.[2] Pearson widened her repertoire, and in early in 1791 she finished the first[2] of three sets[1] she painted after the seven Raphael Cartoons, then at Windsor Castle. The World for April 1791 described them as "forming the most capital Set of Pictures for a private Chapel that has ever yet appeared in this species of Painting."[2] One of the sets was bought by the Marquis of Lansdowne, and the other by Sir Gregory Page Turner. [5]She finished another set about 18 months before her death.[1] The catalogue of an exhibition held by the Pearsons in 1821 was entitled Celebrated Cartoons of Raphael, and Various Other Beautiful Specimens, by Mr. and Mrs. Pearson, Appointed Painters to Her Majesty, on Glass, in Vitrified Colours, at No. 112, Great Russell-Street, Bloomsbury".[6]

She died on 14 February 1823.[1]There are examples of her work in the Victoria and Albert Museum[3] and the Corning Museum of Glass.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Annual Biography and Obituary, Volume 8. 1824. p. 454.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Cobb, Joanna. "From Parrots to Princes: Exhibitions of Contemporary Stained Glass in Late Eighteenth-century London". Vidimus.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Panel. Pearson, Eglington Margaret". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Panel Depicting Four Cherubs Gathering Fruit". Corning Museum of Glass. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
  5. ↑ Bryan, 1886-9
  6. ↑ "About This Book". Google Books. Retrieved 2 February 2013.

Sources

This article incorporates text from the article "PEARSON, Eglington Margaret" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.